Cirrus@Austlit

This topic is designed around a series of weekly two-hour workshops. Workshops will explore three popular genres: Love stories, Horror stories, and Science Fiction. We will spend four weeks on each genre, looking at generic conventions and relevant literary theory and criticism; we will do a close analysis of examples and produce writing in class. The fourth week in each block will be devoted to a workshop of students’ writing. Students will write three short stories to be work shopped, redraft one for their final assessment, and produce a research essay on the genre they have written in.